{"id":4059,"date":"2026-10-14T09:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:11:53","slug":"oil-spills-continue-to-invade-marine-protected-areas-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/oil-spills-continue-to-invade-marine-protected-areas-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spills Continue to Invade Marine Protected Areas Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SkyTruth, a U.S. environmental organization, released a satellite monitoring report revealing that oil pollution from ship discharges and offshore oil and gas extraction is drifting in large quantities into marine protected areas designated by various countries. This oil pollution poisons benthic organisms, destroys seagrass beds, and threatens sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks. The report notes that the boundaries of these protected areas cannot stop cross-border marine oil pollution, and that chronic pollution continues to destroy the habitats of rare marine species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkyTruth, a U.S. environmental organization, released a satellite monitoring report revealing that oil pollution from ship discharges and offshore oil and gas extraction is drifting in large quantities into marine protected areas designated by various countries. This oil pollution poisons benthic organisms, destroys seagrass beds, and threatens sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks. The report notes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":11,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}